Nighthawk wrote:So I'm assuming they chill out in buddhafields since buddhafields are outside all samsaric realms?

My take is that the real Buddha is the dharmakaya... it is uncompounded and beyond existing, not existing, both, or neither, so there can be no talk of it dwelling here or there or at this or that time... When there are beings to be tamed, the rupakaya appears accordingly. When there are no beings to be tamed, the rupakaya emanations dissolve back into the nature within which they arose.

Also, "samsaric realms" vs "non-samsaric realms" is a distinction that occurs in the minds of ordinary beings like you and I, not a Buddha's wisdom mind. We have not yet transcended ideas of pure and impure, so we imagine that there could be some portions of reality that are "samsara" and others that are "Buddhafields". But in reality it's not like that.

Nighthawk wrote:So I'm assuming they chill out in buddhafields since buddhafields are outside all samsaric realms?

My take is that the real Buddha is the dharmakaya... it is uncompounded and beyond existing, not existing, both, or neither, so there can be no talk of it dwelling here or there or at this or that time... When there are beings to be tamed, the rupakaya appears accordingly. When there are no beings to be tamed, the rupakaya emanations dissolve back into the nature within which they arose.

Also, "samsaric realms" vs "non-samsaric realms" is a distinction that occurs in the minds of ordinary beings like you and I, not a Buddha's wisdom mind. We have not yet transcended ideas of pure and impure, so we imagine that there could be some portions of reality that are "samsara" and others that are "Buddhafields". But in reality it's not like that.

heres a thought...after a person has achieved rainbow body is it possible for them to physically incarnate again? or do they stay that way indefinitely?

"But if you know how to observe yourself, you will discover your real nature, the primordial state, the state of Guruyoga, and then all will become clear because you will have discovered everything"-Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche